Some ERP Software Thoughts, Insights & Tips

Benefit From Kaytek IT - ERP Consulting Perspectives

ERP Tips !!

Instead of making the full ERP Investment upfront as a Capital Expenditure , negotiate with your ERP Vendor for subscription type usage-based transaction-linked fees or better still business outcome based fees.

This Ensures that as your ERP system usage increases gradually, your investments increase correspondingly in proportion.

Your ERP Vendor will obviously not like your staggered payment terms, but atleast you ensure that your returns are in line with the financial investments and risks.

In view of the current Enterprise software market dynamics, the chosen vendors could be able to offer the same.

This would help stagger the IT expenditure in a phased manner as well as minimize risks due to fast changes in both Information Technology & Customer Revenue Markets.

If the Large ERP Companies are able
to reshape their mid-Range ERP Solution
Strategies for markets such as India and
China, there is no reason to believe that
they will not be unsuccessful.

Since China and India are forecast to be the
world's factory and world's back-office in the
next decade, in my humble opinion, the smart
ERP companies (whether large or small) will
attempt to build market share first here.

SSA
Global's CEO in Mumbai in November 2003 promised
just that, along with plunging ERP prices.

In fact in our viewpoint, smart ERP users in
India and China will be able to extract the best
possible prices from their ERP vendors.

It is visualised that in the future, SAP Production System Landscapes will start
beginning to move offshore as is being promised by many
large Offshore Vendors as part of their 'Global Delivery
Model'.

In such a scenario, the Onshore / Offshore distance debate may not really
matter especially in the SAP world.

Also, with the rise of on-demand Computing and Software As A Service (SAAS) environments, it does not really matter as to where your SAP IT resources are located, as long as you are assured of service reliability, integrity & data confidentiality.